Word: contra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While directing at Yale in 1967, Miller noticed ? great difference between actors at Yale and actors at British schools. "Yale's actors were not nearly as good as those at Oxford and Cambridge," he recalled. "Over here, you take acting much more seriously and in a strange contra-dictory way. I think it limits your acting...
...individual in an institution is already within a setting that is contra dictory to his total self, and will not satisly his every characteristic wish and want. What must happen then, I imagine, is that we will all weave a crazy-quilt pattern of influence on the social, cultural, and political life of the university, which will take shape through the policies we support or oppose. The pattern is probably woven along certain lines. The recurring questions for the man who sits behind the desk are: What are those lines? What is their substance and form and how shall...
...mile network of elevated, surface and subway tracks now under construction, is due to be completed by late 1972. It is a system of grandiose superlatives. First conceived in 1957, BART is primarily funded by a $792 million bond issue passed in 1962 by San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. When inflated costs and design improvements necessitated an additional $150 million this year, the California legislature imposed a special half-cent hike in the three counties' state sales tax. This makes BART the largest locally financed public works project in U.S. history. It will also be the world...
...resident of Connecticut since 1941, Richter winters in Switzerland, where he is currently hospitalized with pneumonia. But he still insists that he is unhappy only when he cannot work. His current style: rhythmic, wavelike white-on-white bas-reliefs, ambiguously titled Pro and Contra...
Chances of a major change in the Roman Catholic stand against contra ception are growing remote, at least so long as Paul VI is Pope. Addressing a recent congress of Italian gynecolo gists and obstetricians, the Pope said that he needed more time to study the issue and that until he makes a decision, the present ban remains in force. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Ro mano then reinforced the point in a front-page editorial: "Assent to the un natural regulation of births would be assent to moral irresponsibility...